Nebraska has confirmed its first case of bird flu in a dairy cattle herd as a lingering 18-month outbreak continues to afflict livestock nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

California’s first bird flu outbreaks of the 2025-26 winter season have hit close to home. The owner of Reichardt Duck Farm, which sits in the rolling hills between Petaluma and the Two Rock area, ...

Earlier this year, as I began to report on bird flu, an outbreak was raging across farms in Ohio and Indiana. Over 18 million hens — 5% of America’s egg-laying chickens — were ultimately culled in a ...

Health officials in Washington state said Friday they have confirmed the first U.S. human case of bird flu since February, with a strain that has previously been reported in animals but never before ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Earlier this year, as I began to report on bird flu, an ...